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The article summarizes the book "El camino obrero. Historia del sindicalismo mexicano, 1907-2017" by Saúl Escobar Toledo, highlighting the importance of unionism in Mexico and the need to understand its history in order to understand the present. It mentions the absence of the labor movement in national recovery projects and how improvements in wages and labor legislation have not been the result of pressure from organized workers. The book covers different periods in the history of the labor movement in Mexico, from 1915 to 1982, and analyzes corporatism, repression, and violence imposed on workers. It also addresses the arrival of neoliberalism, labor reforms, and union resistance. The author emphasizes the importance of building a unionism that responds to the country's needs. [Extracted from the article]

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In the 1850s an intellectual movement known as 'Rexurdimento' arose in Galicia. This cultural movement sought the recovery of Galician linguistic and cultural identity. Both are currently indisputable; however, the preservation and dissemination of our musical heritage is not so evident. The objective of this research is to check if there have been differences in the results concerning the use of musical folklore in classrooms of current Galician schools compared to the results of the research by Chao-Fernández (2010). contributing in this manner to the preservation and transmission of musical heritage. The research has been carried out on the basis of a mixed model, comparing the results of a questionnaire applied in the 2003/04 and 2018/19 academic years, with a sample of 304 teachers and an interview with 7 teachers. The results corroborate the findings of fifteen years ago and indicate that although the pedagogical methods that promote the use of folklore are mostly used, teachers do not use it for this purpose. Likewise, teaching is limited to few songs, dances, and instruments of Galician folklore. In conclusion, the authors find that the Galician school does not contribute to the preservation of the musical heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we analyze the psycho-social variables involved in the development of the recovery process of people with severe mental disorders. This study aims to explore aspects related with subjective self-perception and the recovery process. The study had a descriptive cross sectorial design. The sample consisted of 59 participants recruited from two mental health day hospitals. Several objective and subjective scales were applied in order to review their relationship around the recovery experience, and to evaluated their experience of recovery, self-stigma, cognitive insight and metacognition on cognitive and social functioning. We also took into account objectified aspects such as clinical, functional and general social situation. The results underline the importance of subjective and metacognitive perceptual factors in the personal process of recovery. These results suggest the existence of a significant relationship between self-stigma and recovery. They conclude that the sense of internalized stigma and the presence of psychotic activity imply lower recovery experience. In turn, difficulties in social relations and the perception of subjective complaints of cognitive functioning are associated with greater personal sense of self-stigma. Finally we consider that these findings may be applied in the clinical management of people with severe mental disorder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A feature of the globalised world is that addictions have become pandemics, whose economic and social costs are alarming. Private clinics, public health centers, specialized institutes, as well as the so-called anonymous self-help groups, are the routes that society has generated to take care of this problem. This work describes and analyzes the organizational characteristics of anonymous self-help groups. Its hierarchic network structure, its self-organized operation and its efficiency in treating three areas of the addictive behaviors of each and every person as a whole: the physical, the emotional, and the spiritual. The emotional treatment is carried out by means of monologues and shared life experiences, whose purpose is to revert the addictive behavior, product of negative emotions and social isolation, and into a cooperative behavior and of sobriety. The neurobiological study of emotions is fundamental to understand these behaviors in the individual person as well as in organizations; in particular, the addiction to food that causes obesity and that has led our country to occupy second place in world-wide obesity. An interesting alternative to dealing with this problem is anonymous self-help groups. This work showcases organization, operation and efficiency based on a case study conducted using an ethnographic methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on the articles in the issue, which discuss the self-help organization Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). He notes that the articles show that AA groups are driven by the very people who seek help, that they lack formal hierarchy, and that their most important feature is the constant face-to-face relationship created between members. He also mentions that the rituals developed by AA are adapted by individual AA groups to the local cultural and social milieus in which they exist.

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Natural recovery is the preferred route of recovery among those who give up or reduce their use of alcohol and other substances, though it is not known whether there are wide variations in this improvement depending on the consumed substance or the cultural context of the addicts. The aim of the present ex post facto work was to study possible variations in both, the process and determinants of self-change, in two groups of Spanish self-changers. Using mainly press advertisements, 29 self-changers who had recovered at least 1 year earlier were recruited, of whom 17 had done so from alcohol abuse and 12 from abuse of illegal drugs. All the subjects were assessed in a single session in aspects related to addiction and recovery. The results revealed significant differences in variables related to the addictive process, such as seriousness of dependence or polyconsumption, and in some of the motivational factors behind the change and employed maintenance strategies. In the light of our findings, it was concluded that the study of the differences between groups of self-changers addicted to various substances may be helpful for the improvement and specialization of therapeutic strategies for each type of addictive problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo discute la incapacidad como concepto jurídico, particularmente cuando tienen que ver con las adicciones, como la ludopatía, y sus efectos sobre el matrimonio. Estas adicciones han tenido graves efectos sobre la comunidad conyugal. Sin embargo, es necesario actuar con cautela cuando empieza a sospechar que uno padece de una adicción y no suponer automáticamente que este problema es la causa de la inestabilidad del matrimonio. Este estudio enfoca en el juego patológico y los tratamientos que se reciben en los Tribunales.